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<h2 class="sectionedit2"><a name="running_gschem" id="running_gschem">Running gschem</a></h2>
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<p><div class="notetip">Are you looking for help with <a href="geda-installation.html" class="wikilink1" title="geda-installation.html">installing gEDA</a>?
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<strong>gschem</strong> can be launched directly from your system applications menu: look for “gEDA Schematic Editor”, which can be found in the “Engineering” or “Electronics” submenus on most Linux systems.  It can also be run by opening a schematic file (ending in <code>.sch</code>) from a file browser window.
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Alternatively, you can run gschem from the command line using the <code>gschem</code> command.  You can run it without any arguments just to open a new, untitled schematic:
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or you can specify the names of some schematic or symbol files to open:
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<pre class="code">gschem mydesign.sch symbols/resistor-1.sym</pre>

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If any of the schematic or symbol files you specify don&#039;t already exist, gschem will create a new, empty file with that name.
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gschem accepts several <a href="geda-gschem_ug-command_line.html" class="wikilink1" title="geda-gschem_ug-command_line.html">optional arguments</a> that can be specified on the command line to alter its behaviour.  They are also detailed in the gschem manpage (which you can view by running <code>man gschem</code>).
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